Rabaul, Papua New Guinea News

Catastrophic eruptions of Rabul and nearby Vulcan in 1937 killed 507 people and wiped out the town of Rabal.

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The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on November 18, 2009, appointed Fr. Jean Bosco Baremes, SM, formerly Councilor of the Marist Fathers' Oceania Province, as Bishop of Port-Vila . Fr.

Hap Harlow graduated from Palm Springs High School with 28 others in 1941, just months before the Pearl Harbor attack.

Next week Professor Kim Beazley, Australian ambassador-designate to the US and former leader of the Opposition, will meet with Veterans' Affairs Minister, Alan Griffin, to discuss how the Australian government can better recognise the Montevideo Maru tragedy.

This column first appeared in Observair , the newsletter of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society.

Dubbed the most diverse country in the world, Papua New Guinea, which is made up of more than 600 islands and 800 indigenous languages, is a gem hidden from many because it's not exactly the first place anyone thinks of when planning a vacation.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

After leaving Madang we made for the town of Rabaul, in the Bismark Archipelago, where we were to load deep tanks full with coconut oil.

World War II remains found in Papua New Guinea that at first were believed to be Australian Diggers have turned out to be Indian soldiers captured by the Japanese.

Since the end of the hostilities I have been engaged in trying to find out what happened to our captured forces at Rabaul and became interested in the shipping movement of the Montevideo Maru and other ships possibly involved in the transportation of prisoners from Rabaul particularly those of the captured civilians.

A reclusive Australian man, who returned to his Papua New Guinea birthplace, has been found dead in a hotel room.

The Office of Australian War Graves, part of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, has said human remains found near Kokopo on 16 June will be buried in the Bitapaka War Cemetery if they are identified as being Australian servicemen.

Skeletal remains suspected to be those of Australian World War II diggers have been unearthed on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

THREE skeletons suspected to be those of Australian diggers have been uncovered near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.

Toms River residents Willy and Karin Goedeke cruised from Los Angeles to Singapore, calling in to see the Rabaul volcano in Papua, New Guinea, along the way.

It was a lucky find in the Australian War Memorial bookshop in Canberra that sparked a trek to Papua New Guinea for the son of a war veteran.

The log of the submarinea s captain, Lieutenant Commander WL Wright, tells the story: a oePut on all engines and worked up to full power, proceeding to westward in attempt to get ahead of him.

Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs LOUISE MARKUS MP has marked todaya s memorial ceremony at Subic Bay by calling on the Federal government to fund a search for the Montevideo Maru The unveiling of a new plaque to commemorate Australian prisoners of war and civilians lost when the Montevideo Maru sank after being torpedoed off the Philippines in ...

The hardest thing for families who lost relatives in the sinking of the Montevideo Maru during World War II was not knowing the fate of their loved ones.